Jenny Owen Youngs (born November 22, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter from Montclair, New Jersey.La Gorce, Tammy. [LINK: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/14njMUSIC.html] "Sure, I Rock, but I Need Health Care", The New York Times, May 24, 2006. Accessed October 24, 2007. "To get it, Ms. Owen Youngs, 24, who shares an apartment in Montclair with a roommate, drives an hour northwest every weekday to Shanachie Records in Newton." Music career Youngs played the flute in elementary school and the tuba in junior high school. At 14, she began to play the guitar. She graduated from Purchase College with a degree in studio composition. Her album Batten the Hatches was self-released in 2005. In 2006, a song from that album, "Fuck Was I", appeared in the second season premiere of Showtime's Weeds, resulting in Batten

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